The CIA heist to steal a top secret code machine from a Soviet embassy
At the heart of every embassy around the world was a machine that held the key to all of a country’s closest-held secrets. During the Cold War, cyphers were how…
The logistics behind cryptology in the U.S. Military
Since the dawn of communication, cryptology has been in place to help keep military secrets just that, secrets. But how it’s done ranges throughout history — from hieroglyphics to modern-day…
This was the punishment for breaking a cryptology oath during WWII
Throughout the second World War, the United states relied heavily on cryptology — a form of communication where language was hidden or written in code so that it could not…
Spies can now use modified DNA to send secret messages
The world of espionage requires two equally important things: access to information and a means of getting that information back to the other side. Modified DNA might make that a little…
This US Army sergeant started the Korean War by selling out to the KGB
For more than 60 years, only seven people on Earth knew that the Soviets broke U.S. military and diplomatic ciphers. One of those people was former KGB Berlin bureau chief and master Soviet spy Sergei Kondrashev. Kondrashev and his peers searched de…
How 3 amateur code breakers solved the Zodiac Killer’s ‘340 Cipher’ 51 years later
An unidentified serial killer murdered five victims in Northern California between 1968 and 1969. The killer then taunted the police and terrorized the public through threatening handwritten letters he sent…